Ringelblum, Emmanuel

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Ringelblum, Emmanuel (1881–1944),Polish historian and Jew who lived in the Warsaw ghetto and chronicled the fate of Polish Jews under Nazi occupation. He had documentation about Chełmno smuggled to the Polish government-in-exile in London which led, in June 1942, to the BBC making the first public announcement about the Final Solution (though it was Eduard Schulte who broke the news in Switzerland in July 1942 that Hitler was pursuing a deliberate policy of exterminating Europe's Jews). During the Warsaw ghetto rising of April– May 1943 he was captured by the Germans and sent to a forced labour camp. He managed to escape, was given false papers, and lived in Warsaw as an Aryan, but was eventually discovered and, with his wife and son, was executed. His summaries were found in 1946, and more were discovered in 1950; these were later published as Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto (ed. J. Sloan, New York, 1958).

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